AS THE YEAR 2022 COMES TO ITS END
As the year 2022 draws close to its end, we are afforded another opportunity of conducting a realistic assessment of ourselves in all dimensions of life. Very soon from the first week of January 2023, Churches and religious groups would start their 1 Week, 2 Weeks, 21 Days, 30 days, or 40 days fasting and prayers; depending on what format such religious group wants to adopt.
While prayer is very important, it is pertinent to state that the nature of our society, the happenings around and the quality of life of religious faithfully do not fully attest to designed outcomes of the vigours that they put in the place of prayers.
Therefore, we may be tempted to infer that it is either God is not fully answering our prayers, we are praying amiss or we are not complementing our prayers with the necessary complementary dose of smart Work.
As we prepare to welcome January 2023, we have to sit and critically examine some key areas of our lives; viz
1. How well have we developed ourselves? In our cognitive capacity/mental, spiritual, and in our capacity to earn.

2. What is our social network/networth. Do you have people in your social circle that you can call on in times of need or people that can point you to directions that would help you to grow and achieve your dreams. If not, develop friends and networks that you can leverage when the need arises. Prov. 13:20 “He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will be destroyed.”

3. How well have you managed your health? For you to exist on this earth, your body needs to be properly maintained. If you don’t manage your health, it would ultimately pose a challenge that would affect you spiritually. Watch what you eat in the new year and control how you live.

4. Develop your capacity to earn. If you don’t keep earning, your liabilities would ultimately swamp your income. When this happens, you will be under so much stress, sink into depression, or always live with a deficit account.

5. How well have you served your God? Seek ways of improving your relationship with your creator? Examine your life and determine to serve God better in 2023.

6. Keep improving. Create/Develop a better you. Whatever weakness you don’t conquer on your way to greatness, always has a way of catching up on you when you seem to have achieved that which you seek. Proverbs 12:24 “The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor”

7. Step living in the past. Build friends with people that share a common future with you. Most people limit their relationships to people that share a common past with them. Those that share the same visionary ideas with you should be amongst your strongest links. Philippians 3:13b-14 “Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize …….”

May 2023 Bring your that which we desire.